mara posing for me
she is still getting used to getting water in her face
she loves it!!! she asks me if we can go swimming everyday.
Sunday was a great lazy day. Jonah worked late- he got home at 5:30 a.m. then went to sleep.
Mara woke up at 8:30 so Jackson and I got up with Mara.
Mara then played in her pool for the next few hours.
she was COVERED in sunblock, since she is fair skinned and burns very easily.
here she is relaxing or as she says it " laxing"
Sweet little Jackson - he LOVES that bouncer, that is why most of his pictures I take of him - he is in it
Saturday night we got to play with the Ballard boys at our house, we had a lot of fun!!
The boys came over, they played in the back yard on the swing set for about 1/2 hour then decided that they wanted to go swimming in Mara's Princess Pool-- okay they weren't to thrilled that it was a girls pool but they had fun anyway.
After "swimming" they came inside put their Jammie's on, watched Ewok Adventures, and ate some dinner. I thought we had a great time!!!
Shanny and Jeff were able to go on a date, they watched Mara and Jackson on Thursday night when Jonah and I went on a date, we hit golf balls, very romantic :0).
Here are some pictures of swimming...
Sammy just looking handsome as can be
Burr that water is cold!!!!
Dawson going down the slide
( the little chubby kid is my neighbor, he came over and wanted to play with everyone)
Gavin is playing ring toss and Mara- I have no idea what she is doing:0)
Showing off some big muscles
Dawson taking good care of Jackson
Mara has her Princess crown on. ( the blue ring)
Please don't look a the lovely CLEAN garage, we are just waiting to get everything into the shed
just drying off and sitting in the warm sun
Jackson just hanging out, watching his sister and his cousins freeze in that water
Saturday was Mara's first day of swimming lessons, she was so excited to go. she was a little distracted but hopefully next week she will pay more attention to her teacher.
Posing for me right before the class started
doing monster legs ( kicking)
playing a game ( to teach them to walk sideways in the water)
this picture is from before the classs started too, I asked her if I could take a picture of her and this is what she did-- she is such a drama queen, I do not know where she gets that from:0)
Just hanging out:0)
Mara got to wear a clown costume that my mom made when we were little ( don't worry Audrey , Mara was very careful with it!!!) In her class there were 4 clowns Mara had the best costume out of anyone though.
the teachers hula hooping
Miss Missy dancing
listening to a story in class ( yes, she does sit every once in a while)
walking on the balance beam
the silly teachers clown costumes
doing a funny little dance in class with the rest of her classmates
Jonah and Sam wrestling
that looks like it would hurt, but Sammy was a good sport:0)
these pictures I took last night, Mara is sitting on the couch to his left( he is looking at her)
this is what he does when Mara is by him,Jackson smiles and coos whenever she talks to him:)
Mara loves her little brother and jackson LOVES his sister-- lets see how long that will last
this is when I was talking to him :(
Finally I got a half smile out of him..
